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I'm looking for information regarding child development workers. If someone can send me a pm that would be great, thanks in advance!

What exactly are you looking for? How to possibly obtain one to help your child?  
 
I recommend contacting Children's disABILITY Services and maybe talk to your child's doctor.  
 
https://www.gov.mb.ca/fs/cds/services.html

As you look through that link provided you can find out all sorts of information and their office is located inside the Provincial Building on 9th! Hopefully you find what you need.

Actually looking for information about the job itself

Good luck. There is a high demand for them around here. They take on big case loads and tend to travel a lot, it's not just in Brandon. When my son had one, pretty sure his lived some where out near Carberry and she travelled all over to see kids. There were days he didn't get his full hour because she would be late getting to my house from her last family and she would just to rush out the door to the next person who didn't even live in Brandon. They try their best to not have scheduling conflicts but again there is a high demand for them just like respite workers.

~BooBoo~ said "Good luck. There is a high demand for them around here. They take on big case loads and tend to travel a lot, it's not just in Brandon. When my son had one, pretty sure his lived some where out near Carberry and she travelled all over to see kids. There were days he didn't get his full hour because she would be late getting to my house from her last family and she would just to rush out the door to the next person who didn't even live in Brandon. They try their best to not have scheduling conflicts but again there is a high demand for them just like respite workers. "

We've had two and never had issues with either of them not giving my son the full amount of time. I do agree though, they have huge areas to cover and have to do lots of driving, especially in rural areas. Our current worker lives over an hour away and our last one was about 45 minutes away and she had a HUGE area to cover.  
 
I looked into it years ago and can't remember if it's needed or not but every child development worker I know also has an early childhood education diploma.  
 
I believe it's considers contract work so I don't think you get sick days or vacation days or get paid if the client cancels unless it's right before. It was like that when I worked for them doing respite.  
 
You need to have patience and to come up with creative ways to get the child to learn different skills occasionally. You asses a child and have to develop skills for them to learn as they master that list you create a new list with the next step of skills.  
 
I love our past and present workers they have been wonderful for my son!